Thanks for all the compliments! I wish I was "that guy" at the last event.;-)
-Andy
--- James Creasy <james@thevenom.net> wrote:
> what i recall from riding with andy is how he almost never drives in a
> straight line, but sees all the places to connect maximum cornering
> semi-circles together so they fit through all the cones. none of this
> road-race late apex crap. this sometimes left my brain behind when i
> thought he was turning left and he would turn right instead.
>
> it was an eye opener for me to drive the awesome bong solis car- quite
> seriously it resists being driven in a straight line, although you have a
> selection of different sized circular arcs to choose from. choose wisely.
> :)
>
> katie always seemed to me to drive the course first and the car second. a
> lesson i try to remember, and one my car car enforces on me anyway.
>
> >I'm thinking that MAYBE, instead of getting on the gas hard I get
> >on it just a little bit earlier
>
> a long soft throttle can be more effective than a repeated stabbing one.
>
> -james
> OSP - On Some Pace
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM>
> To: "Ms Katie Kelly" <aceontour@yahoo.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:53 PM
> Subject: Riding in cars with girls (was: RE: In Car Footage)
>
>
> > > What I learned from this is that the
> > >fastest way through a slalom, and you can see this
> > >visually, is to hold a constant speed through out.
> >
> > Okay, but being a wise ass I would add that this is assuming you can get
> to that steady state speed by the first gate. Really the fastest way is to
> be accelerating flat out on the throttle all the way thru, but on most
> slaloms you can only do that in a really slow car, or maybe a Boxster.
> >
> > >I had no idea just how slow I looked in the car. This
> > >was disappointing.
> >
> > Well having experienced your driving both in car and on film (in my car),
> I can assure you that "you had to be there", it was plenty exciting in real
> life! I think there is a natural order to how fast autox runs seem or feel
> (no matter how fast they really are), and it goes sorta like this (from slow
> to fast):
> >
> > -Watching yourself on video
> > -Watching somebody else on video
> > -Driving your car
> > -Driving someone else's car
> > -Riding with somebody else
> > -Watching Andy on video
> > -Riding with Andy
> >
> > What I have also learned from 3 years of begging rides off people with
> names like Andy and Teresa and Derek and Randy and Katie and Ben to name a
> few, is that there are many different driving styles that can all end up
> being *really* fast. Just as fast. Some people have slow hands while
> others make quick movements but the sum of all of them combined with a big
> whallop of gas is still a smooth motion. As you have pointed out in the
> past some people take tight lines and some are a bit swoopy but it can all
> work out the same in the end. The one thing I can find in common is a very
> high level of committment that comes from not being surprised by anything
> (looking ahead, thinking ahead) and a refusal to relax, coast, or give up
> speed anywhere on course if there is no reason to.
> >
> > Now if only I could do that consistently... but that is why I keep doing
> it!
> >
> > Peter
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